ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,251, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Bandwidth indications for a secondary 160 MHZ channel" was invented by Stephen Jay Shellhammer (Ramona, Calif.), Bin Tian (San Diego), Jialing Li Chen (San Diego), Sameer Vermani (San Diego), Kanke Wu (San Diego) and Youhan Kim (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless communications over a 320 MHz bandwidth. Some implementations more specifically relate to signaling techniques for indicating the bandwidth of a physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) transmitted in ...